Applicants’ Orientation Meeting Tuesday, April 17, 2018 9:00pm – 12:00pm

1. New Jersey Department of Health Office of Minority and Multicultural HealthCommunity Health Disparity Prevention Grant ProgramWelcome! Applicants’ Orientation Meeting Tuesday, April 17, 2018 9:00pm – 12:00pm

2. Agenda • Welcome/Opening Remarks – OMMH • Application • Deadlines - OMMH • Purpose- OMMH • Funding Capacity- OMMH • Application and Deliverables- OMMH • The Logical Model- OMMH • System for Administering Grants Electronically (SAGE) • SAGE Access • SAGE Organization Profile • System Overview • Legal and Grant Requirements • Terms and Conditions • Electronic Reporting • Questions/Closing

3. Deadlines (REVIEW AND AWARD SCHEDULE)

4. Purpose • Support implementation of various approaches to promote health and prevent and control chronic diseases and other illnesses that disproportionately impact minority populations and support the goals of Healthy New Jersey 2020 (HNJ). • Healthy New Jersey 2020, the National Prevention Strategy, the 2010 USHHS National Partnership for Action (NPA) to Reduce Health Disparities, and the 2013 National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS Standards) provide the framework and the impetus for this OMMH funding opportunity.

5. Funding Capacity • OMMH will fund up to 17 applicants to implement evidence-based (best practices) or new, innovative intervention strategies that support the implementation of various approaches to promote health and prevent and control chronic diseases and other illnesses that disproportionately impact minority populations. • Grant funding will be awarded for three consecutive years and will require grantees to submit all required documents through the New Jersey System for the Administration of Grants Electronically (SAGE) per each year of the three-year grant. • Grant funding may be allocated up to $50,000 per each year. • Funding is expressly dependent upon the availability of funds to the Department appropriated by the State Legislature from State revenue.

6. Application and Deliverables • Section I: Describe organizations’ experience in providing culturally, and linguistically appropriate services to the target population and the impact of those services. • Section II: Include a community needs assessment statement supported by data, and include the data source. Describe how the proposed project will fill gaps as a new resource and the potential impact on the community. • Section III: Identify the name and source of the scripted, guided, or innovative intervention to be implemented. Describe which OMMH Health Disparity Priority Area your initiative will target and why. • Section IV: List objectives with projected cost, frequency, duration and number of participants to be served.

7. … Application and Deliverables • Section V: Demonstrate how the project objectives are aligned with the scripted, guided, or innovative approach or intervention proposed. • Section VI: Provide a work plan with a time-line for major tasks, project activities and needed resources such as staff, consultants and/or partnering organizations. Include how and when the Applicant will implement at least one of the CLAS standards. • Section VII: Include an evaluation plan that includes detailed description of how the project will be monitored to assess whether project objectives are being met for innovative programs. If using an evidence-based intervention, include the outcome measures provided by the scripted/guided program. The program’s logical model must be included to explain the logical relationship between strategy and outcomes. This tool will not only facilitate the program planning but its implementation and evaluation.

8. … Application and Deliverables • Section VIII: Describe how many people will be reached (Process) and the desired outcome (Performance). • Section IX: Describe how collaborative works with other community/faith-based organizations, local health departments, health care providers, etc. will help achieve the projects objectives and how it will be sustained beyond the grant funding period. • Section X: Include at least one support letter with or from one of the collaborating organizations. • Section XI: Include a detailed budget with costs that are reasonable and appropriate for the direct provision of services to the target population. Costs must be specific and tied to the project deliverables. ***The Department does not recognize indirect costs as an allowable cost of grants any more.

9. The Logical Model

13. Questions???